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Well, that about wraps it up for the basics. You should now be able to produce a simple presentation or display with the minimum of fuss.
But now let's look at getting your hands dirty and writing your own scripts (or modifying an existing script).
As I've mentioned earlier in this manual: the presentation is controlled with a script - a list of instructions telling Yassa what to do. This is an ordinary textfile.
Textfiles are probably the most flexible and expandable method of doing things like scripting, but usually at the cost of user-friendliness and simplicity. I'm sure anyone who has spent time configuring Linux boxes would agree!
Editing the script yourself will give you far more control over your presentation. It will also give you access to features and abilities which may not be accessible from the front-end for some considerable time - if ever. And while a WIMP-based editor for Yassa is on the cards, it probably won't be around for a while yet (unless anyone else fancies having a go).
So first of all I'll talk about the general structure of a script file, do some simple script examples, and then I'll document all the supported commands.
I've said it before, but just to re-iterate: you'll probably find it most useful to use the WIMP front-end to create a script to start from and then adapt it how you want.
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